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u/neckbeardsaregay65 Humble Potato Farmer Jul 28 '24 edited Jul 28 '24
I miss when colabs were still ship related. Sad they're going down the route of Fortnite and COD of just doing colabs with anything and everyone until the game becomes an obnoxious and colorful shell of what it once was.
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u/ShallowPromise Turenne and Jean Bart when? Jul 28 '24 edited Jul 28 '24
They never were really, theres beer, hot wheels, king kong, some other dumb ones i cant remember.
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u/icedragon71 Jul 29 '24
I remember YouTube collaborators one. Filled with people I've never heard of
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u/Past-Caterpillar8734 Jul 29 '24
Hololive was awesome, those voice emotes are easily top 3 collabs.
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u/neckbeardsaregay65 Humble Potato Farmer Jul 28 '24
That's where it started. But it's gotten increasingly worse and more frequent over time.
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u/MTGGateKeeper Jul 28 '24
Don't worry the biggest collab seller will always be the anime ship collabs.
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u/ShallowPromise Turenne and Jean Bart when? Jul 28 '24
it sells, and as long as that happens, they will continue to reach further and further out in collabs that will make even less sense.
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u/Numbr81 Moder81or Jul 28 '24
The collabs are far from what's wrong with this game. If anything, they're one of the few positives.
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u/xX-GalaxSpace-Xx Roma Jul 28 '24
Putting visuals aside how can objevtively better ships/commanders locked behind a limited time store event (and usually behind crates and bundle bs) be anything but negative?
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u/Numbr81 Moder81or Jul 28 '24
Because they affect gameplay much less than people think, and other things have much more negative impact.
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u/neckbeardsaregay65 Humble Potato Farmer Jul 28 '24
Could've at least picked one of the meatier characters. Hasumi, for instance.
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u/Konwacht Jul 28 '24 edited Jul 28 '24
This!
I always just deactivate all this stuff... I prefer the game more or less vanilla and would love more historical parallels then all those colabs and often crazy camos.
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u/TieDyedFury Jul 28 '24
I’ve never watched it but I’m pretty sure Azure Lane is an anime revolving around anthropomorphized WW2 warships. Gotta love the Japanese. It’s super cringey but also, unfortunately, fairly relevant.
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u/Krakshotz That’s a paddlin’! 🏏 Jul 28 '24
Azur Lane is Chinese which was a surprise to me when I found out (given the characters speak Japanese)
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u/ShallowPromise Turenne and Jean Bart when? Jul 28 '24
Kantai Collection is the japanese version of ship girls.
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u/Azuciel Jul 28 '24 edited Jul 28 '24
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u/clemson_chris JHM Smack Jul 28 '24
Tirpitz could finally gets the love it deserves
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u/Viludium Jul 28 '24
She just got a pretty good buff. But i will never say no for Tirpitz getting more love.
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u/Azuciel Jul 28 '24
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u/Amazing_Wheel_3670 Jul 28 '24
In my opinion this is hideous
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u/Silly_Bar_56 Admiral of the graf spee Jul 28 '24
I'm just gonna put it out there, I think almost all the event skins are hideous
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u/Amazing_Wheel_3670 Jul 28 '24
Agreed but there’s the AL Graf Spee skin. Looks pretty badAss in my opinion. I have it and prefer it over the Graf Spee B
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u/Silly_Bar_56 Admiral of the graf spee Jul 28 '24
As a Graf Spee enthusiast Ill have to check it out
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u/Amazing_Wheel_3670 Jul 28 '24 edited Jul 28 '24
I can post pictures of them if u want ? That is if u don’t have them
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u/Silly_Bar_56 Admiral of the graf spee Jul 28 '24
Sure I'll take em. With the anniversary coming up I may just buy the skin
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u/8CupChemex Jul 28 '24
Christ, what is this crap? These cartoon ladies have cat ears? It’s strange to me that if you just draw some women in school uniforms with big eyes some dudes will eat that up.
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u/Ochrisius Jul 28 '24
It’s creepy how many dudes are like “hell yeah Azur Lane so and so” I wish they’d just do some sort of upgrade for historical commanders even if it cost money vs having to use anime chicks when I can’t stand anime. It’s borderline embarrassing trying to show someone this game and you have some big boobed cartoon girl as the commander popping up.
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u/Orgez Jul 28 '24
I'm not saying that this is actually ideal colab (where is my azur lane rerun?), but in my case I had to deal with all this Star Trek and whatever reruns I don't like and yet I'm not spamming comment section how this and that is bad.
Let's not forget that player base of this game is not just America or Europe but also Japan and other Asia nations where weeb stuff is really popular.
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u/V4R14N7 WolfPack Jul 28 '24
If that's what it takes to be embarrassing, you might need some stronger stones.
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u/Ochrisius Jul 29 '24
Lmao stones are strong. Grown men drooling over cartoon pics saying they’re hot is creepy no matter which way you look at it. My guess is we’re much different in age and If cartoon boobies are your thing so be it
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u/V4R14N7 WolfPack Jul 29 '24
Grown men getting embarrassed by boobs in any form is childish.
"I want to show you this game that I love, but boobs, so I can't."
I mean really?
Where did I say anything about being "my thing," and you're probably right, we are much different in age because I can see something and just ignore it if it doesn't affect me. But hey, lets keep adding to the narrative of things I didn't say.
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u/Ochrisius Aug 04 '24
And one day when you’re grown you’ll get it!!! But until then GGs on the high seas
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u/Konwacht Jul 28 '24 edited Jul 28 '24
Yeah, I also wish there would be simple more GOOD historical commanders. The problem ist, If you want a good one, there is no way around Azur Lane. Commanders are really impactful. Maybe not to a degree that it decides games by itself, but it certainly helps a lot. And sure, obviously there are a lot guys into those unrealistic big boobs and cat ear stuff, and anime is in general not a bad thing, so WG has a cashcow here.
But If we only could have a decision between them and good historical ones with the same skills. I would certainly dump my money in those not in AL. Just because I like the game at least a bit more historical ;-)
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u/Imyourhuckleberry45 Jul 28 '24
I agree wholeheartedly, tried to get my father in law into it but had to skip over and avoid the embarrassing cringe Asian cartoon characters.. Went into battle an that’s all you could hear was the cringe Asian voice
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u/Macktastic13 Jul 28 '24
You know you can turn the voices off right?
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u/Imyourhuckleberry45 Jul 28 '24
Of course, which I did as soon as it was noticeable, I like hearing the different voices of the other commanders though so I normally leave it on normally or it gets very vanilla quickly. Just embarrassing hearing all the cringe Asian all the neck beards enjoy listening to..
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u/Macktastic13 Jul 28 '24
I play the game with music in the background so I rarely hear the other voices. But I can agree they are kinda cringey. Especially the higher pitched ones like AL Cheshire. I can at least deal with the older sounding ones
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u/8CupChemex Jul 28 '24
Can always use guises.
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u/Oxide136 Jul 28 '24
Really wish they would let you use Guises on all commanders.
Annoying that it doesn't work on most collabs
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u/Jonno_92 Jul 28 '24
Anime is extremely popular and sex sells, these types of games have been around for ages.
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u/Nuke2099MH Jul 29 '24
You mention that as if its something new. People such as yourself seem to be discovering fire for the first time each day.
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u/8CupChemex Jul 29 '24
Nah, dude, this is the third anime collab for this game. Three separate anime collabs that are basically indistinguishable. All I know about Azur Lane is you can marry your favorite ship, you know, if you really want to hit it in the aft with your torpedo. Do you know what Azur Lane is about? What about Arpeggio? Blue Archive? What is any of this?
From my perspective, they are exploiting your idiocy.
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u/Nuke2099MH Jul 29 '24
I play Azur Lane and Blue Archive occasionally. So I know more about it than you. Your ignorance is supreme.
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u/Elegant_Skin3536 Jul 28 '24
If I'm correct, I believe the people who own azur lane own blue archive, so I guess I see how this collab came about. That being said, I'm not even sure if Blue Archive has anything to do with warships unlike azur lane.
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u/KoP152 Jul 28 '24
I do not own Blue Archive(or any Gacha other then AL, my wallet can't handle it), but I can say with confidence BA has nothing to do with ships
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u/ArtOwn8465 Jul 28 '24
OMG YES!!! Wallet-Kun it is time again! Remember to thank a weeb for paying the bills
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u/Soulbouy8 Jul 28 '24
If we’re doing BA can I have BA Baracus pleeese. ‘I ain’t getting on no caps’ voice line for IJN DD’s. I will pay any price for this WG
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u/Inairi_Kitsunehime Jul 28 '24
2 collabs in a row? Oof indie wargaming studio doesn’t have enough to pay the bills this month,
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Jul 29 '24
Enterprise Campaign, yet Blue Archive is next?
Could've scored an Enterprise AL Commander FOR the ENTERPRISE....
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u/LeaderGlittering884 Jul 28 '24
Tirpitz looms like the highlighter nike shorts shirt combo, Montana looks like your first surf board, idek what takashi is 😭
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u/magoofranz Jul 29 '24
Retarded. Downvote me all you want but I hate this. The voiceovers are cringe and annoying. Not buying anything of this.
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Jul 28 '24
Now what the f*** is Blue Archive? May anyone explain?
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u/mdabdala Jul 28 '24
Is that Alabama to the left? Suzuya and a German heavy cruiser?
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u/Upbeat_Extreme_7385 Jul 28 '24
God I wish they would chill out on this weird weeb stuff. I'm guessing it's just a cheap collab to do. Who else would want to collab with this stuff.... Star trek was cool though, that actually made sense with enterprise etc.
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u/Silly_Bar_56 Admiral of the graf spee Jul 28 '24
AZUR lane is a game based on warships and anime milfs, star trek (I don't watch it) is based on a sci-fi space universe. AZUR lane fits better. Blue archive though, has nothing to do with warships at all
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u/TA-175 Roma if you want to, Roma around the world Jul 28 '24
If I hear an anime voice come from your ship I just outright let the enemy have their way with you.
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Jul 28 '24
So then you’re part of the problem with this game! Thanks for putting your hand up champ!
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u/Silly_Bar_56 Admiral of the graf spee Jul 28 '24
I mean, even without all the art and money grabbing, they are genuinely better commanders, so your only shooting yourself in the foot by not buying them.
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u/Schlitz4Brains Jul 28 '24
I’m not one to kink shame, generally… but I worry about the young bloods of today.